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Aaron writes the men’s style column “The Pocket Square” for the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for the New York Times, the Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic and others.

Tonight: Objectified in America
I finally saw Gary Hustwit’s very fine film Objectified this week and could not be more excited to moderate the latest Dwell...
Off to Switzerland
I'm headed off to Switzerland on Saturday to take part in the Presence Switzerland Design and Innovation tour.
The Mosque
The Mosque.
Animal Shot Glasses by Goody Grams
I stopped into the quite charming San Francisco spirits store Cask last week, and though the grappa selection left something to...
Objectified in America Discussion
I'm quite excited to post about the latest in a stalwart line of Dwell Conversations.
Peter Zumthor Wins 2009 Pritzker
Today Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was named the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize.
Jeremy Levine at Dwell on Design 09
I'm very excited to announce that architect Jeremy Levine of Jeremy Levine Design will be speaking on my My House panel at Dwell...
Virtual National Architecture Week
The American Institute of Architects kicks off National Architecture Week next week, April 13-19, to continue the public dialogue...
Meat Stephanie Hensle
With all the pork belly, lardo and bacon-in-everything flying around these days, it was only a matter of time before swine made...
Christopher Puzio at Dwell on Design
We editors have started to put together the panels and programming for Dwell on Design 09 in Los Angeles, and I'm very excited to...
Founding Farmers
While in Washington DC we popped into Founding Farmers, the District’s only LEED Gold certified restaurant and bar.
The Return of Ulysses
San Franciscans will not want to miss Claudio Monteverdi’s opera The Return of Ulysses, staged and directed by artist William...
Richard Schultz Design Weighs in on 6 Outdoor Lighting Options
Be they medieval torches blazing on battlements or bug zappers crackling to life with each new victim, the need for outdoor...
Tokyo!'s Urban Anxiety
The new movie Tokyo!—a triptych of short films directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho—presents three increasingly...
Killspencer Bags
I came across a handsome group of weekender and messenger bags by Killspencer last week in my online meanderings.
Oakland Aesthetics
Perfectly content in San Francisco, the Pfeiffers couldn't help falling in love with a charming mid-century house, across the Bay...
Kyle Schuneman on Masculine Design
I recently talked over the phone with Kyle Schuneman, interior and set designer of Live Well Designs in Los Angeles.
Yard Sale Photographs
Yard Sale Photographs, a new book of photography by Adam Bartos, revels in the everyday castoffs and outmoded bric-a-brac that...
Married to the Eiffel Tower
Earlier this week I watched a truly fascinating documentary from 2008 called Married to the Eiffel Tower which ran on Channel 5...
Little Bird Swing
I was on North Haven Island, Maine recently to report a story for the July/August issue of the magazine, and I went to visit a...
PLUG's Jungle Research Station
When veterinary doctor Taranjit Kaur, her husband and molecular biologist Dr. Jatinder Singh, and their three year old daughter...
Kathleen Walsh Reviews 4 Chaise Longue
If you chase long afternoons lolling by the pool, with longer evenings of the same, there is only one piece of furniture on your...
The Architecture of Unhappiness
I saw the wonderful Cannes Grand Prix-winning gangster film Gomorrah directed by Matteo Garrone yesterday, and was struck at the...
Platform 21's Repair Manifesto
Designers talk a lot about extending product lifecycles, but most often in terms of creating new objects with exceptional...
Modern Off-the-Grid Retreat in Oregon
The Watershed is an off-the-grid writer’s retreat that architect Erin Moore designed for her mother, nature writer Kathleen Dean...
Washington, D.C., According to the National Building Museum’s Senior Curator
The U.S. capital is not all political wonks and Masonic conspiracies: It’s also a highly walkable city, its diagonal avenues wide...
Miami Advice
Cathy Leff takes to the road (and sidewalk) to lead us on an intrepid bicycle tour of Miami’s architectural and cultural wonders.
Why There’s More to Montreal Than Expo 67, According to an Architect
Dispassionate about his hometown’s de rigueur "City of Design" designation, Gilles Saucier shows us his image of the city.
Tree's Company
Greening Los Angeles has long been Andy Lipkis’s dream. Greening his nonprofit’s Hollywood Hills campus is now a reality.
Skinny Dip
An elegant new pool house keeps competitive swimmer Sydne Didier in top form, and out of the Connecticut River.
Pendleton's Yakima Blanket with Carrier
Camping, picnics, hell, your hardwood floor.
Interview with Jürgen Mayer H.: Part II
Last week I sat down over an Anchor Steam with Jurgen Mayer H. of the Berlin-based architecture firm J. Mayer H. at the San...
Interview with Jürgen Mayer H.: Part I
Last week I took a walk through the new exhibit “Patterns of Speculation” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with Jürgen...
Fawning Over Flora
Flora Grubb Gardens, the hippest plant merchant in the Bay Area, takes up residence in a new building as green as it is...
Hirshhorn, Ontario: The Modern City That Never Was
An exhibit up at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC chronicles the museum's initial conception, and the Canadian, Philip...
Thibault’s Follies
Quebec City architect Pierre Thibault has designed three Habitats Légers, or Light Habitats—small structures installed in the...
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